{"id":111387,"date":"2020-08-15T18:22:32","date_gmt":"2020-08-16T01:22:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/08\/ariane-5-rocket-launches-robotic-space-tug-into-orbit-alongside-2-communications-satellites"},"modified":"2020-08-16T01:20:23","modified_gmt":"2020-08-16T08:20:23","slug":"ariane-5-rocket-launches-robotic-space-tug-into-orbit-alongside-2-communications-satellites","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/08\/ariane-5-rocket-launches-robotic-space-tug-into-orbit-alongside-2-communications-satellites","title":{"rendered":"Ariane 5 rocket launches robotic space tug into orbit alongside 2 communications satellites"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/ariane-5-rocket-launches-robotic-space-tug-into-orbit-alongside-2-communications-satellites2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A new space tug, only the second-ever to extend the life of older satellites, launched into orbit Saturday on a European rocket after weeks of delays due to weather and rocket checks.<\/p>\n<p>An Arianespace <a href=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/40551-ariane-5-rocket.html\">Ariane 5 rocket<\/a> hefted the Mission Extension Vehicle-2 (MEV-2) into space Sunday (July 31), putting the vehicle en route to an Intelsat satellite waiting for a boost into a higher orbit. Riding along on the rocket were two satellites for broadband communications.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new space tug, only the second-ever to extend the life of older satellites, launched into orbit Saturday on a European rocket after weeks of delays due to weather and rocket checks. An Arianespace Ariane 5 rocket hefted the Mission Extension Vehicle-2 (MEV-2) into space Sunday (July 31), putting the vehicle en route to an [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":465,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,2028],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-111387","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai","category-satellites"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111387","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/465"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=111387"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111387\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":111390,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111387\/revisions\/111390"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=111387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=111387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=111387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}